Just a short post to update the numbers of books available through our library ebook service here in Ontario. The last (approximately) six months have shown another big increase in the ebook fiction and non-fiction categories, with both nearly doubling.

Audio fiction
Audio non-fiction
Ebook fiction
Ebook non-fiction
Total


December 2010
4,202
1,060
1,185
139
6,586


February 2011
4,534
1,089
3,297
505
9,425


August 2011
5,197
1,139
5,773
880
12,989


January 2012
6,271
1,208
11,560
1,543
20,582

I'd be really interested to see some usage statistics on how many patrons are actually downloading books from these electronic library services. I imagine they'd show a similar steady increase.